rise of Liberal Unionists, 151;
Conservative ascendancy, 154-155;
Liberal revival, 156-157;
present significance of party names, 162;
current issues, 163-165;
labor and politics, 165-166.

--Plural Vote, 89-90.

--Poor Law, 178.

--Premier, selection, 66;
choice of colleagues, 67;
leadership, 72-73.

--Prince of Wales, 49.

--Private Legislation, 137-138.

--Privy Council, origins, 17;
under the Tudors, 19;
under Charles II., 37;
relations with ministry and cabinet, 60;
Judicial Committee as a court, 175.

--Protectorate, 29-30.

--Provisional Orders, 138.

--Poyning's Law, 40.

--Redistribution of Seats Act of 1885, 85-86.

--Referendum, Unionist proposal of, 109.

--Reform Act of 1832, 81-82.

--Regency, 50.

--Representation, beginnings of, 11.

--Representation of the People Act, of 1867, 83-84;
of 1884, 84-85.

--Rosebery, Lord, proposals for reform of Lords, 105, 108.

--Salisbury, Marquis of, first ministry, 157;
second ministry, 152;
third and fourth ministries, 153.

--Scotland, union of 1707, 39-40;
allotment of parliamentary seats, 85;
representative peers, 98-99.

--Shire, 5.

--Shire-moot, 5.

--Society for Constitutional Information, 81.

--Speaker, of House of Commons, history and functions, 121-123;
powers, 139.

--Star Chamber, Court of, 20.

--Stuarts, absolutism, 26;
overthrow, 29;
restored, 30;
finally expelled, 32.

--Supreme Court of Judicature, 173-175.

--Tariff Reform, rise and effects of issue, 155-156.

--Taxation, powers acquired by Parliament, 14, 22.

--Toleration Act, 33.

--Tory Party, rise, 39;
ascendancy from 1783 to 1830, 145-146.

--Township, 4.

--Treasury, 62.

--Tudors, popularity, 18;
relations with Parliament, 21.

--Unionists, position in Lords, 102-106.

--Westminster Palace, 116.

--Whig Party, rise, 39.

--William I., governmental policies, 6-7.

--William III., accession, 32.

--Witenagemot, 4.

--Woman's Suffrage, 91-92.

_Folkething_. See Denmark.

France:--
--_Adjoint_, 350.

--Administration, under Old Regime, 341-342;
overhauled in 1789-1791, 342;
revival of centralization, 343;
under Second Empire, 344;
changes under Third Republic, 345;
the department, 346-347;
the arrondissement, 347;